TV Police Show Bias: FBI International Gang Stealing HighTech Data machine Guns trying to kill a witness

Because the Crime Prevention Analysis Middle has typically identified, tv crime reveals appear to suppose criminals always use machine weapons to commit crime. Sadly, CBS’s FBI Worldwide isn’t any totally different (Season 3, Episode 12, Might 14, 2024). This episode reveals folks in a excessive tech theft ring utilizing machine weapons to kill FBI brokers and a witness who noticed a homicide.

In actual life, criminals usually use machine weapons so not often that a 2016 survey of jail inmates solely broke down the numbers for makes use of in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey didn’t point out totally computerized weapons. An analogous discovering is offered from the FBI UCR report, the place 2.6% of all murders contain rifles of any kind, and 0.3% of all murders contain unspecified “different weapons.” There’s a purpose for that. Since 1934, there was just one attainable identified use of a civilian utilizing a machine gun in a homicide. And even earlier than 1934, they had been very uncommon.

Examples of comparable tv reveals may be discovered right here.

FBI Worldwide, Season 3, Episode 12, Might 14, 2024